Show gangian love letters inscribed on bamboo perhaps the queerest type of love letter know la the world Is that in among the manglana Man glans ut the hill lands and mountains of mindoro P I 1 who still hold to the ancient alphabet of about three vowels and ten bonso conso nanta which they group into words inscribed on bamboo in a single vcr tacal column their bolos serving them a a stylus they are an estre melv simple and timid people and thear more aggressive AIa liyan neighbors have roade them hunt cover in the highlands and the primeval forests for business aside roin the very lin business of maung love they hardly need writing at all and sure ly no bamboo ledgers to record their wealth but love makes as ardent demands upon them as upon other folk and their swains fallen victim to cupid whip out their bolos slnar down a good bamboo and go to writing with intense gusto so that a love missive may be strung along the length of a 45 foot pole and the one end trailing in the forest path as the poet incites a warm postscript on the other popular damsels soon have finely etched poles to build a hutto burn such telltale documents would be to light a alre en he forest specimens of the love letter poles have been acquired by scientists and translated and the astounding truth discovered that a manglan in love Is an oate liar I 1 |